RE: Small-Text console Tweaks?
>
> Is there a way to work in debian, outside of
> X-windows, using a text layout other than that
> awful, klunky 80-column x 25-row VGA arrangement?
>
Others have replied here (using the vga=ask lilo flag, framebuffer if
supported, SVGAmode, etc)
> Eg., in DOS one could opt for smaller characters
> using the 'mode' command, and achieve 50 lines x
> 132 chars.
consolechars does that IIRC (or some related command); doesn't increase the
size of the screen but changes
the font size.
>
> Better yet would be a crude windowing system
> that works entirely in text mode (eg., similar
> to some pre-Win-3.1 tools from the mid 1980s.)
>
>
Try twin. It's packaged and I think it's what you are looking for here. It's
a windowing system totally text-based
and that works with the mouse (with gpm I think).
Cheers,
fsm
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